Type mismatch error

Laurie Comerford and all,

This routine supplied by Laurie looks like it would do exactly what I want,
however it will not run for me.

I'm getting a compile error: type mismatch on the line:
"ThisDrawing.ActiveLayer = sLayerName"
but from what i've read in help, this should have been ok (I'm rookie-rank)

Here is the routine provided earlier. I changed the colorcode to be
compatible with 2005 (I hope) and deleted a layer lineweight setting.

Sub CreateTextLayer()
On Error Resume Next
Dim sLayerName As String
Dim oLayer As AcadLayer
Dim oEnt As AcadEntity
Dim Pt(0 To 2) As Double
Dim sNameExtension As String
sNameExtension = "-TEXT"
Do
' ThisDrawing.Utility.GetEntity oEnt, Pt, "Select object for
'" & sNameExtension & "' layer creation"
sLayerName = oEnt.Layer
If InStr((UCase(sLayerName)), UCase(sNameExtension)) = 0 Then
sLayerName = sLayerName & sNameExtension
Set oLayer = ThisDrawing.layers.Add(sLayerName)
' You can set a whole range of layer features using the 'With'
' feature below.
With oLayer
.color = RGB(255, 0, 255)
.Linetype = "CONTINUOUS"
.Plottable = True
End With
ThisDrawing.ActiveLayer = sLayerName
' Option to move selected item to the layer if it is text of mtext
If TypeOf oEnt Is AcadText Or TypeOf oEnt Is AcadMText Then
oEnt.Layer = sLayerName
End If
End If
Loop Until Err <> 0
' Line above keeps code going till
' user presses <Esc> or fails to select an object.
MsgBox "No object selected, finishing program run"
End Sub

 

The .ActiveLayer property wants a layer, not a string.

ThisDrawing.ActiveLayer = ThisDrawing.Layers.Item(sLayerName)

 

thanks, that worked well.

I'm sure I'll have more issues until this thing is fully-tuned, but its a
big help to have it running.